THE MERRY WIDOW
\ITH Lana Turner as the Widow and Fernando Lamas as Count Danilo, Franz Lehar’s cheerful little operetta sparkles like a beaker of warm. beer. There is, it is true, a modicum of stren-. ugus rah-rah-ing in and around Maxim’s, Lamas sings three songs passably well, the Technicolor is lush and the settings are the best that ‘dollars can buy-but, in the circumstances, anything less merry, less like Lehar, it would be an’ effort to imagine. Miss Turner attempts a few bars of the theme-song (in what is, I presume, a technicoloratura voice) but gives it up hurriedly. I gave up shortly afterwards and went home. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 19
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